Change header color

[jseabold]

I'm not liking the header color very much. Noticed first in the release notes. It doesn't stand out. Thoughts to changing it to #204a87. I've done it locally, and I think it looks ok (but I'm no designer). It's the same color from the agogo style for header.

http://www.color-hex.com/color/204a87

E.g.,

http://www.florian-diesch.de/doc/python-und-glade/online/

cc @josef-pkt @vincentarelbundock

[josef-pkt]

Too dark in my opinion, we wanted a less shouting, and more modern look with dark letters on light background, not reversed

(I don't like light writing on dark background)

look at github colors

[vincentarelbundock]

204a87 looks a lot darker than the blue line I see on the website you linked at (florian). To me, what I see on that website looks very Windows 95, which is probably not what we want to go for. It seems fitting that the website "doesn't stand out"; the current look seems serious and professional, I think.

But yeah, I'm no designer, and I've kind of revealed my own (minimalist) tastes in websites with my personal one: http://umich.edu/~varel

[jseabold]

@josef-pkt I don't want to change the background. Just the h1-h6 header colors. E.g. "Programmieren mit Python und Glade" in that link.

IMO the main points (headers) in our release notes don't draw the eye well for scanning, but I can be shouted down.

Yeah, I should've checked. The site I linked is using

http://www.color-hex.com/color/006288

which may or may not be the default agogo. IPython is using the darker color here, e.g.,

http://ipython.org/#announcements

[vincentarelbundock]

So you want to change the color of the letters used in headers from black to dark blue?

One big problem with the previous website was that there were 4 different shades of blue used on the same page. The German (?) page you linked to has that same problem (headers+banner+links+left-menu). I think that looks terrible...

I think the dark blue you propose might actually go pretty well with the greyish-blue banners, but then we'd need to figure out what to do with links. And I'm not sure there's actually much gain in terms of "pop" from moving from black to dark blue.

[jseabold]

[jseabold]

That's the darker blue. You can change the color by hitting right-click inspect element on the header in chrome or firefox (might need firebug extension in firefox). Still just a thought. I'm not really pushing. The different shades of blue doesn't really offend my sensibilities.

[josef-pkt]

I like the current black better, I think the black looks more serious

our pages have already enough color, and blue for links:
http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/devel/install.html
http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/devel/gettingstarted.html

pure text has also the headers visible enough, IMO :
http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/devel/introduction.html

blue looks too much like links, I think
maybe a change in font would make headers more visible

github: change in font, color and underline
https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota
maybe good for a FAQ but not as general template for the documentation

Note: we have the TOC in the sidebar for a quick overview of headers

(I like the top level headers of Thomas's website http://work.thaslwanter.at/Stats/html/# cursive with shadows)

[jseabold]

Ok I'll leave it. Maybe see about a different font. (The sidebar headers are useless beyond ~15-20 characters.)

[josef-pkt]

sidebar headers: I'm using them.
and I miss them in longer notebook examples http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/devel/examples/notebooks/generated/example_discrete.html
in contrast to
http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/devel/examples/generated/example_discrete.html

[jseabold]

See above for how they look for longer ones. The rST template for notebooks are not there yet, though I haven't gone through the nbconvert changes in IPython 1.0.